[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

[David Ascher]

Barry Warsaw wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 10:36, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
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>>What I mean by reassigning builtins is:
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>>    import __builtin__
>>    __builtin__.int = something
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>IMO the only defensible reason to do that is for debugging purposes. 
>Although I haven't had a need for this in many years, it has
>occasionally been useful to reassign built-in open() to catch or log a
>particular file action.  (IIRC, the last time I did this was before the
>resulting IOError included the filename argument.)
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I've done it to find out how often and when open() is called in a large 
application.

>A warning is fine -- even desirable.  I'd want to make sure such
>debugging hacks didn't make it into a release. :)
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In this case too, I wouldn't mind warnings.  I would mind it if I had to 
hack my libc to track python-level open() calls =).

--david